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Six Weeks

Six weeks is the period in which parents of newborn babies in Poland may decide to give up a child for adoption. Marcin Janos Krawczyk looks at one child's fate through the eyes of the mother who must make her irreversible decision and the joyful parents who adopt her baby.

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